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Fahim - I'm not quite there with your analogy but I'll get back here in my studio when the temp drops a bit more this evening (hopefully with the Dob up on my elevated platform and the mirror cooling fan doing its thing) and go over it.
That is to say that I think I appreciate the analogy but want to absorb it more fully to appreciate what seems to be a rationale as emminently poetic as anything written so far.
Maybe its my artist' bent or my cultural propensity to delve into patterns and intricacies but in many ways I was motivated to start this thread by the desire to evolve different ways of seeing, understanding or explaining things, where many take the dry/barren approach path.
It seems very similar to one of the ways I worked my way through (my own!) conundrum - imagining a Dob's revolving azimuth baseboard sitting at each polar position and being able to join up each gradation from one pole to the other (creating the meridians or Hour Angles) like the paths you walk in your clock analogy.
The one at the equator - hang on now, I've just used a ball and 2 disks to trial this analogy and I'm confused again Fahim!?! - I'll wait till the sun goes down and review it then. From art to abstruse philosophy to (most probably in my case) absurdity, regards, Darryl.
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